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5112 svcadm manpage needs more 5021-related updates
5593 Recent versions of svcadm invoked for multiple FMRIs say "Partial FMRI matches multiple instances"
8688 svcadm does not handle multiple partial FMRI arguments
Reviewed by: Dominik Hassler <hadfl@omniosce.org>

@@ -271,12 +271,13 @@
                   fnmatch(5). If the pattern does not begin with "svc:", then
                   "svc:/" is prepended.
 
 
 
-       If an abbreviated FMRI or pattern matches more than one service, a
-       warning message is displayed and that operand is ignored.
+       If an abbreviated FMRI matches more than one service, a warning message
+       is displayed and that operand is ignored.  If a pattern matches more
+       than one service or instance, the subcommand is applied to all matches.
 
 EXAMPLES
        Example 1 Restarting a Service Instance
 
 

@@ -405,10 +406,10 @@
 
        Attempts to synchronously enable a service which depends (directly or
        indirectly) on a file may fail with an exit status indicating that
        dependencies are unsatisfied if the caller does not have the privileges
        necessary to search the directory containing the file. This limitation
-       may be removed in a future Solaris release.
+       may be removed in a future release.
 
 
 
-                                  May 9, 2008                       SVCADM(1M)
+                               October 17, 2017                     SVCADM(1M)